Legal Opinion
Perez v. Pasadena Independent School District
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided February 9, 1999No. 97-20345, 97-20489PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Chief Judge:
Plaintiffs-appellants, Hispanic residents of the Pasadena Independent School District and an unincorporated association consisting of individual plaintiffs-appellants, allege that the at-large election system used by defendants-appellees, Pasadena Independent School District and members of its board of trustees, for choosing school trustees violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 42 U.S.C. § 1973 (1994) (as amended). The district court found no violation and entered judgment in favor of defendants-appellees. We affirm.
I. FACTUAL & PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND 1
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